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Re: Font Awesome 4 released

#41

Post by thekingshorses » Wed, Oct 23, 2013, 5:24 PM UTC

Is this better than http://icomoon.io/app?

I can create my own font file with icomoon so it only contains the icons that I needed for my site. Only issue I have is that there is no way to save the created font file so that I can modify later.

Re: Font Awesome 4 released

#42

Post by fortawesome » Wed, Oct 23, 2013, 5:25 PM UTC

quarterto wrote: post #38

fortawesome wrote: post #27

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Uh, what are you talking about?

I think they're referring to an article that made the rounds a few days ago (can't remember which) that decried the requirement of Adobe Illustrator for participation (citing as evidence the ratio of icon requests vs pull requests).

I tried taking designs from other folks. The quality wasn't good enough, so I stopped.

Re: Font Awesome 4 released

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Post by pallandt » Wed, Oct 23, 2013, 5:30 PM UTC

If you're looking for good looking icon fonts, don't forget to check out Entypo as well(http://entypo.com/). Not as many options as Font Awesome, but they do look really good/much better than other free alternatives or even paid ones.

Re: Font Awesome 4 released

#44

Post by wesley » Wed, Oct 23, 2013, 5:35 PM UTC

No IE7 support any more it seems.

Re: Font Awesome 4 released

#45

Post by skore » Wed, Oct 23, 2013, 5:37 PM UTC

fortawesome wrote: post #42

quarterto wrote: post #38

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I think they're referring to an article that made the rounds a few days ago (can't remember which) that decried the requirement of Adobe Illustrator for participation (citing as evidence the ratio of icon requests vs pull requests).

I tried taking designs from other folks. The quality wasn't good enough, so I stopped.

Ah, so the old "you don't like my pull request, so I will tell people you're not Open Source". Classic.

Re: Font Awesome 4 released

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Post by jdminhbg » Wed, Oct 23, 2013, 5:41 PM UTC

manishsharan wrote: post #8

I love Font Awesome though I do not understand why they have to claim "The iconic font designed for Bootstrap" --- I have managed to use Font Aweome with Zurb Foundation and SASS and it works just fine.

It was designed for Bootstrap in the sense that it originally served as a drop-in webfont replacement for the image-based icons in Bootstrap. Bootstrap had , and adding FontAwesome just made that render as a font glyph instead of an image with no extra work.

Re: Font Awesome 4 released

#47

Post by ihsw » Wed, Oct 23, 2013, 5:41 PM UTC

fortawesome wrote: post #3

ihsw wrote: post #2

Oh for heaven's sake, why is icon-* being deprecated? I stopped using Glyphicons because they switched to glyphion-* .

It's customizable in the LESS or SCSS.

That's quite good.

Re: Font Awesome 4 released

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Post by jwarren » Wed, Oct 23, 2013, 5:42 PM UTC

RBerenguel wrote: post #30

As much as I like having them for my projects (but I see no reason to get v4 instead of keeping v3), still no temperature (thermometer) nor sparklines (graph.)

I feel like this is outside of Font Awesome's remit.

Re: Font Awesome 4 released

#49

Post by jwarren » Wed, Oct 23, 2013, 5:45 PM UTC

thekingshorses wrote: post #41

Is this better than http://icomoon.io/app ? I can create my own font file with icomoon so it only contains the icons that I needed for my site. Only issue I have is that there is no way to save the created font file so that I can modify later.

It's different. Icomoon is brilliant for creating a preset group of icons which will be used in a predictable way. But sometimes, especially during prototyping, you don't know which icons you'll want. Just being able to include a pretty thorough library which renders consistently and gives you a decent level of control is a nice weight off your mind. It would be nice to have a subsetting tool, but imo that's what Icomoon's for.

Btw, you can save fonts in Icomoon - just click on the save icon in the bottom right and it'll save a settings json file which can be reimported.

Re: Font Awesome 4 released

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Post by hcho » Wed, Oct 23, 2013, 5:59 PM UTC

fortawesome wrote: post #25

davewiner wrote: post #10

They renamed the icons. They don't just break apps when they do that, they break users. At some point things like the names of icons should be frozen. I love Font Awesome of course. But please!

This is why it is a major release. It breaks compatibility for the sake of moving forward.

Could we not move forward without changing the namespace. Serious question.